The Dilemma Continues

SHOULD Malaysians bother to vote? The corollary of this question is: does the Malaysian Government deserve to be re-elected? The answer to the second question is no.

In the past few years, the Malaysian Government has presided over an extraordinary number of scandals that are appalling by any standards: the trade minister’s allocation of car import permits to friends, relatives and supporters; the billion-dollar fraud at the Port Klang Free Trade Zone; the outrageous and much-flaunted wealth of ruling party politician Zakaria Md Deros; the claims that a High Court judge allowed the lawyer representing a rich businessman to write for him his judgement in a defamation lawsuit; an immensely rich chief minister in Sarawak state who is allowed to rule as if it were his; and so on.

The Malaysian Government richly deserves to pay for all of this at the ballot box.

So the next question is: should the Malaysian Opposition be elected to office? Again, the answer is no.

The Opposition is a shambolic assortment of the disaffected rather than a competent, alternative government. In no way is it ready to govern.

All these questions are pertinent because Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi has called elections for March 8.

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‘Malaysia needs a strong opposition’ -there’s a dire understatement right there-the opposition as is is a total hodge podge of groups with diametrically opposed ideas who do not trust each other or are built around personality cults-what happens if,in an imaginary scenario the so-called ‘opposition’ did asume power in Malaysia? Whichever party viewed themselves as the strongest would stab the others in the back, the most likely backstabber being our old friends PAS-why so ye ask? Why, because they have the ‘divine mandate’ from God to rule-look here-this isn’t medeival Arabia and we don’t want it to be-we’re Malays now, Malays tomorrow and Malays forever-as evinced by their beyond pathetic track record in my beloved Kelantan, these people are not qualified to collect bus fare, let alone administer a state, let alone administer a third world country hoping to make a transition into a first world country-you have to realize something-PAS doesn’t believe in democracy-it’s just something they use to further their barbaric agenda on the Malay people.
The other fallacy of the opposition in particular but Malaysian politics in general is that parties try to appeal to the voters ethno-religous identity as opposed to ideology or point of view-Malaysian politics in sub-text are a Manichaean struggle for survival-us vs. them,enemies,both foreign or domestic are created but what the party wants to do to improve the life of the rakyat is mentioned in passing-can you imagine if there was a ‘United White National Organization’ or ‘American Caucasian Congress’ in America? They would immediately be labeled as white power organizations! So approach the politics on what unites you ideologically,transcending race, religion or gender-everybody who is qualified to lead can do it.Just some food for thought.

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